Introduction
Part I: The presence of light
1. Identity
2. Authenticity
3. The imaginary
Part II: The absence of light
4. Mystery
5. The past
6. The magic hour
Afterglow
Index
Lara Thompson is a writer and lecturer whose research focuses primarily on the relationship between cinema and photography
‘In this fascinating study, Lara Thompson unfurls the history and
expressive potential of cinematic lighting. Thompson's nuanced
readings, which span screen images from the silent to the
post-digital era, are both complex and accessible, extending beyond
formal analysis to engage with our experience of light and its
significance in moving image culture. An exciting contribution to
the field, Film light invites us to take a fresh look at the power
of light in the cinema.’
Pam Cook, Professor Emerita in Film at the University of
Southampton
'Thompson's careful choice of case studies and their contribution
to the argument continually bring questions of materiality into
dialogue with film aesthetics and film history. In the book's
perhaps most engaging chapter, she explores the way in which light
and darkness mingle at dawn and dusk, suggesting that these
threshold moments illuminate cinema's own liminality. This is a
passionately written as well as intellectually acute work.'
Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck
College, University of London
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